Hello and welcome to the latest edition of Music Weekly. On this week's show, singer-without-portfolio Sufjan Stevens talks to Rosie Swash about why his latest album, the BQE, was inspired by a New York interstate (what else?). He also discusses religion, nature and why there's a bit of grunge in all of us.

Next up, Singles Club casts its net across this week's new releases, and brings you such catches as Memory Tapes' Plain Material (courtesy of Paul Lester), the Shuttle remix of Phoenix's Love Like Sunset (courtesy of your host, Paul MacInnes) and Portico Quartet's Paper Scissors Stone (courtesy of The Swash).

From here we take a trip overseas as guardian.co.uk/music editor Tim Jonze heads to Paris to talk to those Gallic purveyors of soft-core electronica, Air, about Sarkozy, Serge Gainsbourg and why French people just can't rock. Which, coincidentally, is news to Michael Hann, who raves about French metallers Trust for this week's Feature With No Name.